Our Strategy

The 3 themes

The core themes, along with our vision, values and mission form the basis of our individual service plans and core development documents and feed into every aspect of what we do.

For Everyone

We will work with people as individuals to offer the right support at the right stage on their unique life journey. Our services will span prevention, early intervention and recovery and will integrate physical and mental health. Our services will be relevant and accessible to our diverse communities.

Goals

- We will take a holistic approach and inspire people to maintain good mental health and wellbeing
- We will provide support for people at the earliest opportunity
- We will never give up on people’s dreams
- Our services will reach and be relevant to our diverse communities

Growing Together

We will draw on the strengths of our employees, service users and communities to change lives. We will build a wider range of partnerships to expand our reach and reflect how everything is connected to our mental health and wellbeing.

Goals:

- Our services will be co-produced with service users at the heart
- We will embed asset based community development approaches
- We will establish enterprising joint ventures and partnerships to deliver our goals
- As we grow, our employees will feel connected to the organisation

Leading the Way

We will be at the forefront of the transformation of health and wellbeing services. We will inspire people to be bold and brave in order to meet new challenges. We will innovate and deliver high quality services. We will measure our impact and demonstrate our effectiveness.

Goals:

- We will demonstrate that we are well led and deliver high quality services
- We will pioneer innovative approaches to mental health and wellbeing support
- We will inspire people to be bold and brave, creating leaders at every level
- We will enhance our influence by showcasing our impact and expertise

Developments since our last plan

The Consultation Process

Development of our 5 year plan began in 2017 with several planning and consultation sessions which came under our 2017 theme ‘Your Say, Our Future’.

Employees and trustees were invited to attend roadshows in July 2017 which included creative exercises and brainstorming ideas around what our strengths were and what our future should/could look like.

Services held consultations with their service users and volunteers to obtain feedback on key questions and provided feedback postcards within their services ; stakeholders and partners were sent an online survey to obtain their feedback.

Employees voted for their favourite vision and got the opportunity to comment on the main themes via an online survey. The final plan was then approved by our Board of Trustees.

Take a look at the short video below which features our Chief Executive Ruth introducing the new strategy :